Bolas's Citadel Infinite Exploration | Against the Odds 

I feel like it's similar to the Paradox Engine/Millennium Calendar issue: it's not a Millennium Calendar deck, it's a Paradox Engine deck with Millennium Calendar as the wincon. I feel like Aetherflux Reservoir would be the same: it's not an Amalia deck, it's an Aetherflux deck. Heck, this one almost feels like a Bolas's Citadel deck.

Aetherflux Reservoir actually sounds like an even better version of Path of Discovery, since with Amalia every single spell gains you life, starting the chain, then it also lets you kill them rather than hoping Amalia survives and your opponent doesn't gain some life.

Most lists I’ve seen play 2 copies of Dina from strixhaven. The ping every time you gain life lets you combo kill from the graveyard using rally of the ranks

Aetherflux Reservoir + Luminarch Veteran does seem much more consistent in this deck.

​@@spicymatorespectfully disagree, I feel like the Wincon is the most important part. I'd rather watch Seth play the most bog standard paradox deck to win with calender, than watch the 999th way to cheat an emrakul into play

That Ugin got us good.

Citadel is "ten nonland permanents".

Ha, yeah, it might be worthwhile. We actually came close to milling ourselves out pretty often.

That's how i use to play black/green explore with two Gaea's Blessings. Once you got 10 permanents the next time you had another Bolas's Citadel on the stack activate the one in play then keep playing your whole deck. Wayward Swordtooth would let me play all my lands also since you saccing it and replaying it also.

I also used Blessings for recycling my deck, but I used to aetherflux reservoir for non-combat win con I may also add you can used DFC land to reduce the land count.

​@@mrlurkerBlinking a Wayward Swordtooth/Azusa/etc doesn't give you more land drops. If you have 1 wayward in play, you can play 2 lands on your turn, if you have 2 you can play 3, etc. Blinking one or it dying and replaying it etc doesn't change that

Ooo that's awesome.

I've seen a gruul version that plays a bit of ramp so you can get to all will be one faster. Wonder whats the ideal shell for the deck, as the combo is VERY sweet and strong. The clock activation is usually lethal xD

I used One Ring and Paradox Engine so you win that turn as long as Calendar has a counter

I wonder if there’s any time counter cards that would benefit from having Millenium Calendar’s counters thrown onto it, or vice versa Hmm, Rose Tyler could work…

LegenVD has a really good Calendar/ All Will Be One combo deck for Standard

Prosperous Innkeeper is probably one of the best choices as it also sets up your follow up turn with an additional treasure

Bolas's Citadel though!

I already have all the best soul sister cards because I’m an arena player, so I’m going to build it this way

too slow though... especially in a format that has a fairly consistent turn 3 win deck in Discovery combos.@@MTGGoldfish

I'll be honest, I kind of forgot Mavren and Ghalta was a vampire.

Do you have a decklist? This seems like a super cool deck to play

@@welcomehome7247 Deck 2 Heliod, Sun-Crowned (THB) 18 1 Plains (LTR) 263 3 Rosie Cotton of South Lane (LTR) 27 4 Scurry Oak (MH2) 172 1 Forest (LTR) 271 4 Prosperous Innkeeper (AFR) 200 4 Soul Warden (M10) 34 4 Collected Company (AKR) 186 4 Eldritch Evolution (SIR) 195 4 Wildgrowth Walker (XLN) 216 4 Lunarch Veteran (MID) 27 4 Brushland (BRO) 259 3 Branchloft Pathway (ZNR) 258 1 Overgrown Tomb (GRN) 253 4 Temple Garden (GRN) 258 4 Amalia Benavides Aguirre (LCI) 221 4 Llanowar Wastes (BRO) 264 1 Nurturing Peatland (MH1) 243 4 Caves of Koilos (DMU) 244 The mana base could use a little work as it is just what I had in my account. Otherwise, I feel it is pretty good for BO1. Only removal is Amalia, but not usually a problem with all the lifegain and winning the game on turn 4 most of the time. Got me to the top of Platinum so far this season.

Whats more funny it seems seth forgot what format he was playing and that ugin was playable

Nice!

Seth doesn't own a keyboard.

Or you just sit back and watch them deck themselves assuming your mono-green deck doesn't have a wipe, then Ugin them. If I were the opponent I would have been laughing with every cast and self mill.

the problem here is that if the Wildgrowthwalker survives past the Amalia-Nuke it`s a forced Draw since neither trigger is optional and they will continue to trigger infinitly

I had a similar idea in spoiler season (though it was using Tamiyo's Safekeeping to start the loop)... but then you're stuck in an infinite loop because neither triggered ability is a "may".

Makes sense. Thanks yall

You can't choose X when playing off Citadel. It's always 0.

@@kaziksmolski3429 Strange. As I understand wording of the card, it allows to choose any pay-able X, yet in Gatherer it directly says "X must be 0"

@@madgenius9720 when you're casting a spell via an alternative cost, you can't choose the value of x. In addition, Bolas's Citadel explicitly says: pay life equal to its MANA VALUE which in this case will be 1 while Jadelight Spelunker is in the library.